Chapter 111: Pulling a Hair

For Fan Xian, the pity, naturally, was that Ming Qingda did not mess up in front of his long-hidden sudden strike, and the admiration, naturally, was because of the same reason.

Xia Qufei’s real life, is definitely one of the world’s most secretive events, the Ming family simply do not know that this Ming Qi Gongzi is still alive in the world, was saved by the old lord of the Jiangnan water fortress back then, even became the commander of the Jiangnan water fortress, the Ming family and even some business dealings with the Jiangnan water fortress, if Ming Qingda had known Xia Qufei’s identity, I’m afraid that he would have long ago already thought of a way to deal with him.

Today, facing the seventh young master of the Ming family who appeared like a ghost, the contemporary master of the Ming family was only slightly stunned, and then at least returned to the surface calm, this kind of qi cultivation kung fu, it is really worthy of being the richest man in Qing, the family of the great clan in Jiangnan.

Although the Ming family had deep connections in Kyoto, there was no possibility of them knowing this. Because even Fan Xian, it was only after drawing up this year’s plan last fall that he began to conduct targeted research on the Ming family, and it was only then that he was able to find this gap that could be exploited in the middle of this iron plate in Jiangnan.

Of course, this is attributed to the four heads of the Supervisory Yuan Yan Bingyun, the little speech of the information summarized intelligence analysis and meticulous tracing ability, it is this has not been very revealing Supervisory Yuan senior officials, successfully dug out the most hidden Xia Qufei’s life.

If not for the help of Yan Bingyun in laying the groundwork for Fan Xian, he would never have been able to make it so easy for him to go to Jiangnan this time.

The Ming family and his entourage suppressed their inner shock, and left the entrance of the inner library mansion in silence, traveling out of the street blocked by soldiers, there were carriages coming up to take them, and drove towards the Ming Garden outside the city. I don’t know how the Ming Garden will be messed up by the news of young master Ming Qi’s sudden resurrection tonight, and what the Ming family will do to deal with it.

Fan Xian stood at the entrance of the mansion, smiling as he watched the Ming family’s carriage disappear into the twilight.

Behind him, the officials and the Jiangnan merchants and gentry looked at this scene, their hearts couldn’t help but chill, feeling that the smile hanging on the corners of Lord Qin’s lips appeared incomparably cold and cold-blooded.

The people can not help but look at Xia Qufei a few eyes, seems to be still unable to Jiangnan water fortress of the bandit leader, and the Ming family many years ago to determine the death of the Ming seven young masters, they know, there is the Lord of the Qinzhi to do backing, there is that year that the legendary will, about the Ming family that huge to the point of the family’s property, in the future, good to have a fight, although the Ming family can be completely denied, but the thing, will always become intense! The will of the Ming family about the huge to the point of family property.

And these Jiangnan merchants, what kind of benefits can they get from it?

Lingnan Xiong Bai Ling and Quanzhou Sun Jixiang old man looked at each other, are in the heart of the matter, the evening in the Jiangnan residence of the party …… should not invite one more person?

Just today’s card face set off too suddenly, Jiangnan merchants a moment also can not get the idea, and at this time to Xia Qifei reach out to the hand, but also some too bold, and then also do not know that the surname of the summer of the Ming seven masters, in the end, how do you think.

Xia Qufei how to think, Fan Xian is not clear, he only knows in the action manual that Yan Bingyun draws up for himself, the line of Jiangnan, should be the left and right division and behavior, hit the Ming family, then the rest of the merchants to be soft. Today Xia Qufei robbed so many markers, already hidden to force the Jiangnan merchants to unite, tomorrow with the Ming family began to compete for food, and Xia Qufei the identity of this real and fake, those Jiangnan merchants should also be able to smell the flavor of the conspiracy and opportunity.

Risk and opportunity have always been a pair of twins, and merchants have an innate spirit of adventure.

So Fan Xian gave Xia Qufei a gesture.

Then he saw Xia Qufei walking to Xiong Bai Ling and Sun Ji Xiang with a smile on his face, and in the gaze of the other party who was slightly stunned, he softly said a few words. The merchants all laughed softly, as if they were talking about a very interesting topic, before the crowd dispersed to leave this street.

Fan Xian turned back to say a few words to Xue Qing and Eunuch Huang, and glanced at Guo Zheng before leaving first under the protection of the tiger guards. As he left, he turned back and swept with his afterglow, seeing that although Xia Qifei was not going in the same direction as the merchants, he knew in his heart that there should be a chair for Xia Qifei at the party on Jiangnan Residence later on.

The Ming family had suffered a loss, the Ming family was being attacked by Fan Xian in a frenzy, but Eunuch Huang and Guo Zheng, who were the representatives of the Ming family’s backers, didn’t seem to be too agitated or concerned, these two smiled and bowed to Governor Xue Qing, and whispered a few words about something else.

Xue Qing frowned slightly, shook his head, put his hands behind his back and got into his official sedan chair to leave.

At this time, in front of the gate of the mansion, only Eunuch Huang and Imperial Inspector Guo Zheng were left, and they narrowed their eyes as they watched the Governor of Jiangnan’s sedan chair gradually turn that corner, and their faces instantly became ugly.

Guo Zheng said coldly, “This Governor General is also too careful in his actions, what is there to be afraid of in a joint petition.”

Eunuch Huang laughed, “Lord Guo, how many lords in this world can be as iron shouldered as you? I think that last year, in the hall of the Ministry of Justice, you were not afraid of the powers that be and severely tried Fan Xian, something that the palace appreciated quite a bit.”

Guo Zheng scoffed to himself, “Don’t mention that.”

Eunuch Huang quieted down and said softly: “Xue Qing this person, has always been deeply trusted by His Majesty, and in the official field, this person is the most smooth and elusive …… This time Fan Xian secretly make Xia Qufei out of the bidding, you are the Imperial Historian, you can wind words on the book, but after all, there is no way to take the actual evidence, Xue Qing is definitely not involved in the To which, we asked earlier, but also just to test his attitude, you also know, we look at the place was not in Jiangnan.”

Guo Zheng smiled faintly and responded, “This is natural, officials are not allowed to do business, the court has set this rule for so many years, and which lord has really abided by it? Even if Xia Qufei is Fan Xian’s pawn, we have captured the evidence and stabbed it into the court …… I’m afraid that His Majesty will also laugh it off, and did not care about it in previous years, and now that Fan Xian’s saintly favor is strong, there will be even less of a problem.”

The two glanced at each other again, Guo Zheng continued with a smile, “The matter in Jiangnan always has to end in Kyoto, eunuch, where do you think Fan Xian got so much silver from? Although we can’t find out how the silver came to Jiangnan, we can always check if the room …… that was supposed to be filled with silver was emptied by the Fan family at this time.”

Eunuch Huang heatedly smiled grimly and said, “Those masters in the palace, would have been this way of thinking. Jiangnan a place, just let the Lord Qinzhi toss it …… after two days, the capital is afraid to start checking the Ministry of households.”

Fan Xian stood in the middle of Hua Yuan’s study, his body leaning forward, looking at the little hand on the book case cupping the brush and writing earnestly.

Among such big children, the third prince’s words are considered to be written quite well, elegant and not soft, the skeleton is powerful and carry rounded, containing but not exposed, strong but not hair, with the word viewer, Fan Xian heart is clear, this is like his own in the past, always like to hang on the face of a shy smile of the Royal Highness, really is not a simple role, just the age of after all, is still small, there are a lot of things to look at is not very clear.

In dealing with matters in Jiangnan, Fan Xian’s most important work is to fulfill the duties of the Secretary of the Imperial College, responsible for the third prince’s studies and cultivation. Regarding the third prince’s study, Xue Qing kindly invited a famous doctor in Jiangnan to give the third prince a lesson the other day, but he was kicked out by the third prince.

After Fan Xian returned to Suzhou, he heard about this matter and became furious, leading the Third Prince to personally go to the Jiangnan Academy to apologize to those gentlemen, kindly ask those gentlemen to re-enter the Huayuan to serve as a teacher, while he himself was even locking the Third Prince within the study room and ruthlessly beating his palm a few times.

The ruler fell on the palm of the hand, the sound is very crisp, especially fell on the third prince’s palm, the ruler feel even more arrogant and pleased.

By the time Xue Qing heard about this and rushed over, the palms were already finished. The Governor Lord looked at the eyes reddened, but still obedient Third Royal Highness, could not help but be shocked, although Fan Xian is His Majesty’s handpicked teacher of the Emperor, but really down to beat …… this little Lord Fan really is not a general boldness!

After this matter was declared out, Jiangnan scholars all praised the Lord of the Qinzhi is really worthy of the light of the literati, so respect for teachers, originally Fan Xian’s excellent reputation, it is even more beautiful.

In fact, what the people were not aware of was that Fan Xian was teaching the Third Prince, which had nothing to do with the Emperor, but was purely because he did not want to mistake what Yi Gui Concubine Zheng had entrusted to him.

“Your Highness, it’s almost time.” Fan Xian said softly as he looked at the third prince who was writing carefully.

“Teacher, there are still two pages missing.” The Third Prince looked back in shock, seemingly not expecting Fan Xian to be so gentle today.

Fan Xian smiled and said, “Your palms still hurt, right? Just make it up tomorrow, take a break today and go out to play.”

He rubbed the Third Prince’s head, an action that seemed a little too affectionate, even if he was a teacher, by all rights, he should be sitting tall and unsmiling.

Instead, the third prince ate this, perhaps the children who grew up in the palace, all have some contact deficiencies, whether physically or psychologically, the little guy smiled and saluted, and ran towards the door of the room, running so fast, I don’t know what kind of fun awaits him in the Ming Garden.

Looking at the back of the third child leaving, somehow, Fan Xian’s heart was a little empty, began to miss his younger brother who was far away in the capital of Northern Qi, Wang Qinian wrote to say that Si Zhe was recently busy with the help of the Supervisory Yuan, to collect the Cui family’s line in the north, just the seven leaves did not have the means to leave the country, and it was indeed a little hard for him to be a teenager who had to be in charge of such a big thing.

As for the third prince so leaping to leave, Fan Xian also understand what is the reason, because he these days let the third prince to pester Haitang Shang, with the respect of the prince, to worship under the door of the Heavenly Dao, I think the bitter lotus will not be too much opposition to it, even if this matter in the future to get wrong, but let the third from Haitang Shang to learn some kung fu to protect his body, hard to get together the reality of the master and disciple, in fact, for all of us have the benefit.

Outside the study came the sound of knocking on the door, Fan Xian woke up from his contemplation and looked up, only to see Shi Elan Li was twisting his head to look at the garden, but his fingers were subconsciously knocking on the door.

He couldn’t help but laugh and said, “Come in, what’s there to see?”

Shi Yanli smiled bitterly and stepped through the door, saying, “Teacher, letting the third prince follow the Haitang girl to learn the art, also really only you dare to do it …… The other party can after all be the Holy Daughter of the Northern Qi …… If this matter spreads to the capital, I’m afraid that it will again stir up Quite a lot of trouble.”

“What trouble?” Fan Xian smiled and said, “His Majesty asked me to bring the Third Prince down to Jiangnan, so of course I have to teach him with all my heart, and as for when it comes to things like martial arts, Haitang is always more suitable than me.”

The two of them stopped talking about this topic, Shi Yanli said with a bitter face, “Today Yang Jimei came again and insisted on inviting me to dinner.”

Yang Jimei was the biggest salt merchant in the two Huaihuai areas, and the Huayuan where Fan Xian lived today was given up by this salt merchant. Fan Xian was also clear that this salt merchant was Xue Qing’s close friend, so he always gave the other side a few favors, and once he heard Shi Yanli say this, he knew that although Yang Jimei hadn’t earned any benefits this year, he had great expectations for next year’s inner treasury.

He smiled and said: “This garden is his family, he wants to come to see, of course, we are not good not to do …… him this is to know that I can not flatter me, had to come to flatter you. Eat on eat, you later also want to do business in Jiangnan, like this kind of local snakes more know a few is always good.”

“Where is he going to invite you?” Fan Xian asked.

“Jiangnan Residence.”

The highest-ranking restaurants in Suzhou city were Jiangnan Residence and Bamboo Garden Pavilion; when Fan Xian first arrived in Suzhou, the Jiangnan officials led by Xue Qing picked Jiangnan Residence to receive him, and now that the Ming family’s Bamboo Garden Pavilion had been half-bought and half-scared into the hands of the Three Emperors in preparation for remodeling it into a branch of Hugging the Moon Mansion, Yang Jimei had to treat him, so of course he had to do it at Jiangnan Residence. Fan Xian thought to himself that his question was indeed somewhat redundant.

He pondered for a moment and then said: “Today, the Jiangnan merchants are also scheduled to meet at Jiangnan Residence …… The Ming family will have to cope with Xia Qufei’s affairs today, and it is estimated that they will not send anyone to the meeting, and Yang Jimei has to invite you to dinner today, and surely he also wants to take this opportunity to climb up with those royal merchants. This opportunity …… you give Yang Jimei, when the time to bring him into the seat.”

Nowadays, people in Suzhou city all know that Shi Yanli, the shopkeeper of Holding Moon Building Branch, is actually Fan Xian’s beloved, with Shi Yanli as the middle guide, those imperial merchants must be very happy to accept Yang Jimei’s arrival, of course, Fan Xian’s idea is not only to return a favor to Yang Jimei and Xue Qing, there are other arrangements.

“Open your ears wider in the seat.” Fan Xian said, “Without the Ming family present, those imperial merchants won’t avoid you, and might deliberately pass on their arrangements for tomorrow to me through your ears.”

Shi Elaboration nodded, but in fact, his heart was still a little nervous, “Should I pay attention to Xia Qufei?”

After staying in one place with Fan Xian for a long time, Shi Fu Zi, who used to only know how to read the holy books painstakingly, had begun to get used to looking at everything in the world through the eyes of conspiracy theories.

This statement was clearly that he didn’t trust Xia Qufei very much.

Fan Xian laughed and said, “Don’t worry, Xia Qufei is a smart man, he won’t be stupid enough to betray me at this time, it won’t do him a single bit of good.”

Shi Yanli smiled in slight embarrassment and asked again, “Is there any words that your honor would like me to bring to those Jiangnan imperial merchants?”

“Well ……,” Fan Xian lowered his head to think for a while and said, “Just say that this official supports them to let go of their hands, and even if this year is a total letdown, this official will make up for it next year.”

He raised his head and admonished, “Of course, you have to qualify this statement, don’t say it’s too naked.”

Shi Elanli received his orders and was about to leave, when he suddenly thought of something that Yang Jimei had mysteriously mentioned earlier, and after some thought, he still opened his mouth and said, “Yang Jimei said earlier that there is an organization in Jiangnan called the Junshan Society, and that its strength is somewhat mysterious and unpredictable, so please keep some eyes open for it, my lord.”

Fan Xian thought for a moment, feeling that the name Junshan Society was unfamiliar, and it seemed that there were no records inside the case files of the Supervisory Yuan, frowning, he said, “Mysterious …… doesn’t necessarily mean powerful, I know.”

Waiting for Shi Yanli to leave, Fan Xian’s brows but frowned more and more tightly, an organization that even he didn’t know, what exactly did it represent? He called out.

Gouda, who had been guarding the door, came in stridingly, and now Fan Xian was doing less and less to avoid him, on the one hand, through the tiger guards, to show frankness to the one on the dragon chair in the capital, and on the other hand, he also wanted to try out the four words of “to move people with love”, to see if there was any possibility of really turning these several powerful tiger guards into real “own people”. The “own people”.

Let Gouda called to the head of the swordman of the six departments, Fan Xian said to the subordinate frowning: “How many people are still in Suzhou city?”

This question is the number of assassins and swordsmen of the six divisions, his majesty allocated to transfer over the tiger guards a total of only a few people, either away from the side of Fan Xian, but also a few people to stay behind the third prince, this is categorically can not be mobilized, and the Supervisory Yuan six divisions of the assassins, most of them are now in the shadow’s leadership, full of the south of Jiangnan and the batch of masters sent by the city of east barbarians to fight in the guerrilla warfare, so the manpower that can be mobilized by Fan Xian is surprisingly not some of them in the hands of the time! He said.

“There are still seven people in the Sixth Division …… and four in the Suzhou Inspection Division are quite a few.” The subordinate answered in a deep voice.

Now qinian group’s main leader Wang qinian in north qi, Deng Ziyue in Kyoto, Su wenmao was Fan Xian stayed in minbei inner library three big workshop, so this person is even Fan Xian’s most direct subordinate, coincidentally, this person is also from the six office, so is qinian group for the defense of the work of the most skilled person.

“Don’t tune in for the four Branch’s.” Fan Xian sighed and said, “They are not good at fighting and killing people, if there is any loss, and Yan Bingyun knows that I used his people indiscriminately, with his nature, I really don’t know how he will react, I will be criticized when I return to the capital.”

Gouda and that Qiyan team member who were listening on the side both laughed.

That subordinate asked suspiciously, “My lord, what’s the action today?”

“To protect someone.” Fan Xian said in a deep voice, “Take those seven swordsmen from the Sixth Division and rush to the Jiangnan Residence at this time, find Xia Qufei, and tell him directly that this is the guard I gave him, and at the same time, tell him not to be suspicious, and that I’ll take it back as soon as the inner treasury bidding matter is over.”

Doubting people is not a good idea, using people is not a good idea, Fan Xian has put a nail in Xia Qufei’s side or not, no one knows, but at least on the surface, except for a few old officials from the Ministry of Households, the Supervisory Yuan is not monitoring Xia Qufei’s every move, this is the way to get along with the two sides, that’s why Fan Xian has decided to transfer someone to Xia Qufei’s side today, and he always has to explain a sentence or two.

The subordinate frowned and said, “My lord, with all of them transferred over, what about around you and Third Highness?”

Fan Xian glanced at Gouda and smiled confidently, “My safety, naturally, I have Lord Gao to worry about, your task is to ensure that before the opening of the bidding in the inner library, Xia Qifei himself, cannot have a half a point of loss.”

Hearing this, Gao Da saluted with a grip on the hilt of his sword.

The subordinate no longer continued to ask questions, calmly accepting the order and preparing to open the door to make arrangements.

Fan Xian frowned and suddenly spoke, “Pay attention to safety.”

Today, the Ming family’s old Taijun seemed to be in a very bad mood, not even touching a single bite of the daily routine of warm pigeon soup, which was sent back to the small kitchen as is, while Elder Ming and the young master went straight into the back garden after returning from Suzhou city today, and have not come out since.

The uncles and nephews of each house, also got the order, full of worried faces, through the Ming Yuan Qingmei corridors and lake pavilions, rushed to the old Taijun’s compound. The maids and subordinates, who were full of puzzlement, watched the fourth master who only loved to walk the birds, the third master who only loved to marry concubines, and the sixth master who only loved to practice wrestling with the martial arts masters, walking in a hurry with an unsettled face, the men of the Ming family who usually find it extremely difficult to gather together, have all arrived at this time, and could not help but wonder what in the end had happened.

For a time, the entire Ming Garden was shrouded in a tense and uneasy atmosphere.

And rumors of this kind of thing spread speed, always more rapid than the postal system that Qing is proud of, not long after, all the subordinates in the Ming Garden know a shocking news, it turns out that today, Suzhou City, the inner library of the opening of the bidding, suddenly appeared an enemy who dares to fight against the Ming family, and that the enemy …… is actually the legend of the early death of the Many years of Ming seventh young master!

Back then, the previous owner of the Ming family loved the mother of the Ming seventh young master the most, and in the will, it seems that the majority of the estate was left to that miserably destined Ming seventh young master.

It was just that after so many years had passed, the Ming family had long since become the possession of the eldest house, and at this time, a person like that suddenly appeared, what exactly would happen?

“Calm down.”

The wrinkled face of Ming Lao Taijun indifferently looked at the Ming family men in the hall, her heart surged with a wave of anger, these men encountered such a small matter, they are so panicked, how can she feel at ease after a hundred years to hand over such a big family business to them!

“Sister, with such a sudden rumor, it’s no wonder the children are panicking.”

Sitting beside Ming Elder Taijun, is that year that Ming Elder’s concubine, because of the good to the main wife’s bawling, so she has been living until today, she looked at Ming Elder Taijun’s face, trembled her voice and said, “If that …… surnamed Xia is really Xiaoqi, what can be done about this ah? “